White on Black in South Africa - A Study of English-Language Inscriptions of Skin Colour (Hardcover)

The English-speaking whites of South Africa participate in the larger culture of the English-speaking world while rejecting its unspoken consensual positions on many basic issues. This study analyzes texts of different kinds produced by the group to examine the way these deviant English-speakers see themselves, and particularly how this self-image is influenced by the presence of the blacks who constitute a crucial part of their perceptual field. Economically powerful but politically marginal for many years, the English-speaking whites have always been mediators of their community's experience to the world culture of the English language; the study shows how the act of mediation operates in more than one direction, producing a literary tradition that is essentially - and perhaps surprisingly - dissident.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	1993
First published:	1993
Authors:	Michael Wade
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	175
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-36573-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-333-36573-9
Barcode:	9780333365731

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